Caryatids were columns carved in the shape of females. This figure is
one of six caryatids that supported the roof of the South porch of the
Erechtheum, on the Acropolis of Athens.
There is an inscription shown on the wall of Erechtheum that refers to
them as Korai (maidens) and records that they were in place on the
Temple by 409 BC.

She resembles the girls from the Procession on the East Frieze of the
Parthenon. She wears a Peplos (tunic) with a short cloak hanging from
her shoulders. Her long thick hair is braided around her head and falls
on each shoulder down her back.

This Caryatid came to the British Museum in 1816 with Lord Elgin's
Marbles, other Caryatids have been removed from the Erechtheum and can
now be seen in the Acropolis Museum